What I learned from watching the documentary Pacific Garbage Patch is that there is so much plastic and waste being dumped into the pacific. A group of people traveled by boat to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to discover how much waste and trash there is. The group found a variety of things such as: a ball, tire, plastic, and even "the ghost of plastic" The ghost of plastic was remarkable. It was a big glob of ropes tied up to each other. In the ropes there was trash, plastic, garbage and even a toothbrush! This just shows how much trash is being dumped into the Pacific Ocean. The group stated that the ratio between plastic to sea life is 6:1. They predicted that it would take everyone in planet Earth 100,000 trucks EACH to just clean the pacific ocean. So any volunteers on filling up your 100,000 trucks load of garbage!
So where is this trash coming from? It's mainly coming from human activities and especially developed countries such as China and the U.S. Most of the plastic ends up in the shores of beaches and lakes. But that isn't the case. Once the Pacific Ocean has consumed the plastic and garbage it is very hard to "spit out" the trash again. Even after the ocean spits out the trash it gets landed near beaches being even more contaminated. At this rate if we continue producing out waste into oceans we will be living with trash. The use of plastic should be stopped it will only get worse if we continue throwing our plastic onto the oceans.
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